How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React
Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort…
Projects
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ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective
Over several years, while fully employed, some friends and I built a startup with whatever time we could scrape together. ProjectSHERPA was an imagining of what the tech recruiting marketplace could…
Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?
I took a Data Science class in my MBA program, and I was recently re-reading our final project write-up. The assignment was to take a complex data set, do some analysis on…
A Side Project
My track record for posting here has been pretty poor the past 2 years. It’s tough to find time to write something interesting, let alone think up something interesting to…
The Last 5 Years & Earlier Stuff
There is something special about Jason Robert Brown‘s musical, The Last 5 Years. We performed this at Dartmouth in 2004, and 8 years later, it’s still one of my go-to…
Saintly Music
I’ve spent some time lately converting my old audio and video tapes to digital formats – things like family videos, concerts, etc… One of the tapes I found contains a…
Unpacking Kozmo Jones
I’ve been holding onto this since 2006: a children’s poem about two of my now-gone dogs, Kozmo Jones and Angel. I sent this to several publishers back then, but no…
Bored with (Bulletin) Boards
Several years ago, I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that certain forms of digital communication mediums were lagging in their evolution relative to others. You would need Silverlight to…
Unpacking Aguilera
I do a lot of random projects – starting a lot more than I finish. Might as well put some of them up here, eh? Let them live forever on…